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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
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Bertie plant would give crop options
By RITCHIE E. STARNES
Editor
A pilot extraction facility planned for
Bertie County would benefit all of north
eastern North Carolina.
Calls to build the medium sized facil
ity would be helpful to area farmers
looking to bolster cash crops, according
to Anita Johnson, project director for the
N.C. Northeast Development Foundation
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Retha Furlough shows off several of the
crocheted hats she has made to sell to raise
funds for Relay for hat. Furlough is wearing a
hat she and her daughter created.
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Crocheted hats benefit Relay for Life
By REBECCA BUNCH
Stqff Writer
What had been a hobby for Retha Fur
lough has become a way she can
raise money and awareness for a
cause she believes in — cancer research.
Furlough, a breast cancer survivor who
works in the housekeeping department at
Chowan Hospital, crocheted a batch of hats
to encourage women going through chemo
therapy with her. Since then, she has begun
selling her hand-sewn hats and toboggans
to raise money for Chowan-Perquimans Re
lay for Life that takes place next month.
Commission candidate files by petition
Challenger’s name
to appear on ballot
By RITCHIE E. STARNES
Editor
Add another candidate
to the District 1 Chowan
County Board of County
Commissioners race af
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ter a challenger filed by
petition, according to the
Board of Elections.
Douglas A. Hollowell
will be among the trio
of candidates vying for a
seat on the county com
mission that represents
northern Chowan Coun
ty. His name will appear
as an unaffiliated Can
didate on the November
ballot along with Repub
lican Robert T. Hutchins
and Democrat Jeff A.'
Smith.
“I believe I’ve got a
lot to offer the county”
Hollowell said Monday.
located in Edenton. The facility would
provide a processing site, which would
smaller farms identify alternate use of
crops.
Advanced agriculture technology re
mains critical to the region’s 16 counties
still dependent on farming where land is
the most significant asset. The addition
of the pilot extraction facility could be a
harbinger of more technology, Johnson
said.
The hats and toboggans are available for
viewing, and for purchase, at the hospital.
Furlough said that when making a hat
she knows it will be worn by a cancer pa
tient, she always includes a card with a per
sonal message that tells them she is praying
for them.
“It’s like giving them a special hug, when
they put on one of my hats after they’ve lost
their hair because of treatment,” Furlough
said. “I want them to know that they are not
going through this alone.”
It takes about 2 Vs hours to make each of
her creations, Furlough said. Hats without
flowers or other extras are going for $8;
those with flowers and other additional
“I beleive I have a lot to offer the
county...My pledge is to help all
. people and not just one party.”
Douglas A. Hollowed
Candidate running for County Commissioner seat
“My pledge is to help all
people and not just one
party.”
It was during the of
ficial filing period that
Hollowell first inquired
about seeking the of
fice, only to learn that
he had missed the dead
line to change his party
affiliation, according to
Rebecca Lowe, Board of
Elections director.
To run, his only option
was to file by petition.
‘‘When you file by pe
“It can change the face of the region
over the next 20 years,” Johnson said.
“We can have a new economic niche for
this region.”
Here in Chowan County, the sage crop
has already been identified as crop with
alternate value. Sage is used in such pro
ductions as perfume.
Richard Bunch, Chamber of Com
merce director, said the region could ex
perience a boost in ethanol production.
work are $10 each.
“Half of everything I make on the hats
will go back to Relay,” Furlough said.
No pattern is used, said Furlough, who
has been crocheting for about 20 years, and
each hat is unique.
Given the opportunity to promote her
hats, Furlough doesn’t lose sight of the
chance to promote something else — mam
mograms. That’s what saved her life, she'
said, and she wants to. get that message out
to other women.
“It only takes 15 minutes to get one,”
Furlough said. “What’s 15 minutes when it
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tition, you’re required
to get 4 percent of the
registered voters in your
district,” Lowe said.
Hollowed needed to
codect at least 139 sig
natures of his district’s
3,466 registered voters.
On Aprd 6, Hollowed
submitted a petition
with 218 signatures with
188 deemed valid, Lowe
said.
Hodowed lives in
Tyner and works
as a certified public
accountant in Elizabeth
See PETITION, 6A
He pointed to an earlier identified me
dicinal extract from tobacco.
“It can’t be anything, but good for the
area,” Bunch said. “We’ve got some of
the best farmers in the business.
“A good year for the agricultural com
munity is good for everyone,” he added.
The proposed processing plant in Ber
tie would be the benefactor of a $150,000
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COA
campus
moving
July‘11
By RITCHIE E. STARNES
Editor
Chowan Cqunty lead
ers officially informed the
College of The Albemarle
Tuesday morning that
plans include moving the
school’s Edenton-Chowan
campus next summer.
Last week, COA officials
expressed concern that
Chowan County had yet to
give details of its plans to
move out of the Edenton
Village Shopping Center
and into the D.E Walker
Alumni Building. At an
enterprise committee
• meeting Tuesday morn
ing, attended by Campus
Dean Lynn
Hurd 1 e -
Winslow,
commis
sioners
informed
her that
the move
would take
place af
ter July 1,
2011, part
of the 2012 fiscal year’s
budget.
“The only caution I have
is that we start classes in a
month and a half (of that
date), H'urdle-Winslow
said.
If plans included moving
the campus, COA leaders
had hoped to began mov
ing earlier and in phases,
but to do so would prove
too costly for the county
“It would actually costs
us more this year to do
that,” said Commissioner
Hurdle-Winslow
See COA, 6A
Man shot
in left ear
RITCHIE E. STARNES
Editor
A 21-year-old Edenton
man was shot in the ear
last Thursday night after
an altercation in a motel
parking lot, according to
Edenton Police Chief Jay
Fortenbery.
Blake Bass was shot in
the left ear around 9:31
p.m. in the parking lot of
the Coach House Inn Mo
tel on North Broad Street,
Fortenbery said. Bass and
Lyndell Box, 56, of Clinton
were sitting in a van in the
parking lot when a subject
confronted the men. An ap
parent argument ensued
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